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Elena YONCHEVA

ECR · Bulgaria

Group
ECR Changed group: Renew 16 Jul 2024 – 22 Dec 2024 → No group 23 Dec 2024 – 7 Jul 2026 → ECR since 8 Jul 2026
Country
Bulgaria
Roll-call participation
63.8 %ⓘ of 2 891 roll calls in office · chamber median 91.2 % · 2025, roll calls
With majority line
—ⓘ The non-attached have no group line.
More facts (5)
National party
DPS Movement for Rights and Freedoms
In office
Since 16 Jul 2024
Against clear line
—ⓘ The non-attached have no group line.
Committees
EMPL, LIBE (substitute)
Member id
197842
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Record

The member’s figures against the median of their group and of the chamber. Each vote counts the member in the group they belonged to that day.

Roll-call participation ⓘ

63.8 %

1 844 of 2 891 roll calls while in office

Non-attached median: 85.9 %

Chamber median: 91.2 %

With majority lineⓘ

—

The non-attached have no group line.

Against clear lineⓘ

—

The non-attached have no group line.

Abstention ⓘ

10.0 %

185 of 1 844 votes cast

Participation 63.8 % — Non-attached median 85.9 %, 31 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
Participation among the 31 members of the Non-attached with enough votes.
FigureParticipation
Elena YONCHEVA63.8 %
Non-attached median85.9 %
Lowest in the group46.3 %
Highest in the group99.6 %
Members31
  • 2025, 2 891 roll-call votes. The dots are the other non-attached members; no ranks.
  • “No vote recorded” is not the same as absent: leave, illness and chairing the sitting look the same.
  • A group’s line is inferred from its members’ votes — Parliament publishes no whip.
  • This member changed group during the term, but sat in Non-attached throughout this period; each vote counts them in the group of that day.
  • The non-attached have no group line: loyalty and votes against a clear line are not computed.

Votes, 5 928

Export

Every roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.

Result: for–against–abstained. Majority line: how most of the member’s group voted that day (“Tie” when no position won). ≠ group marks a vote otherwise than a clear line (at least two thirds, with at least 10 members voting) of their group.
DateDecision and voteResultPositionMajority line
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Commission Amendment 11 to paragraph 9 204 for, 423 against, 17 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Commission Amendment 30, adding text after paragraph 7 225 for, 420 against, 0 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Commission Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 7 200 for, 433 against, 16 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Commission Amendment 31 to paragraph 6 212 for, 437 against, 5 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Commission Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 3 194 for, 444 against, 15 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Amendment of the European Electoral Act allowing Members to vote in plenary by proxy voting during pregnancy and after giving birth Final vote on the draft Council decisionConsent given 616 for, 24 against, 8 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Enhancing connectivity, preserving cultural heritage and driving local excellence in European tourism – destination management and regional tourism growth Final vote on the motion for a resolutionAdopted 439 for, 42 against, 129 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Control, transparency and traceability of performance-based instruments Final vote on the motion for a resolutionAdopted 527 for, 85 against, 33 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026The role of ocean diplomacy for the competitiveness of EU fisheries and aquaculture Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 430 for, 107 against, 115 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026The role of ocean diplomacy for the competitiveness of EU fisheries and aquaculture Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 35 351 for, 85 against, 205 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026The role of ocean diplomacy for the competitiveness of EU fisheries and aquaculture Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 35 615 for, 14 against, 19 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026The role of ocean diplomacy for the competitiveness of EU fisheries and aquaculture Separate vote on paragraph 17 484 for, 140 against, 15 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026The role of ocean diplomacy for the competitiveness of EU fisheries and aquaculture Separate vote on paragraph 9 481 for, 151 against, 17 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026The role of ocean diplomacy for the competitiveness of EU fisheries and aquaculture Separate vote on paragraph 5 447 for, 74 against, 16 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Final vote — text as a wholeRejected 231 for, 389 against, 33 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 3, adding text after Recital B — part 2 409 for, 199 against, 20 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 3, adding text after Recital B — part 1 453 for, 171 against, 13 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 2, adding text after Recital B — part 2 427 for, 201 against, 11 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 2, adding text after Recital B — part 1 527 for, 97 against, 18 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendments 1 + 25 (voted as one), adding text after citation 21 301 for, 335 against, 12 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 24 to paragraph 77 485 for, 77 against, 66 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 29 to paragraph 76 134 for, 480 against, 19 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 23 to paragraph 74 483 for, 111 against, 50 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 28 to paragraph 74 114 for, 501 against, 27 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 22 to paragraph 73 468 for, 85 against, 75 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 21 to paragraph 71 — part 2 302 for, 238 against, 91 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 21 to paragraph 71 — part 1 541 for, 36 against, 74 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 18 to paragraph 53 272 for, 357 against, 16 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 64, adding text after paragraph 40 614 for, 22 against, 15 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 60, adding text after paragraph 32 399 for, 232 against, 13 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 14, adding text after paragraph 32 527 for, 99 against, 24 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 32 315 for, 310 against, 20 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 32 451 for, 179 against, 18 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 31 302 for, 323 against, 22 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 55, adding text after paragraph 25 — part 2 275 for, 331 against, 11 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 55, adding text after paragraph 25 — part 1 556 for, 82 against, 11 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 25 — part 2 426 for, 205 against, 8 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 25 — part 1 513 for, 110 against, 24 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 25 — part 2 434 for, 204 against, 9 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 25 — part 1 532 for, 89 against, 29 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 25 — part 2 416 for, 206 against, 15 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 25 — part 1 511 for, 106 against, 21 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 25 412 for, 217 against, 18 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 6, adding text after paragraph 25 277 for, 349 against, 19 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 17 to paragraph 25 439 for, 181 against, 21 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 5 to paragraph 25 234 for, 385 against, 28 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 54, adding text after paragraph 3 388 for, 213 against, 44 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 16 to paragraph 3 412 for, 228 against, 12 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 2 — part 2 413 for, 210 against, 18 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 2 — part 1 452 for, 166 against, 23 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —

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Roll-call participation

One cell per sitting while in office, shaded by the share of that day’s roll calls the member voted in. The official attendance register is kept separately by Parliament.

No vote recorded on 22 of 51 sittings with roll calls.

"No vote recorded" is not the same as absent: leave, illness and chairing the sitting look the same.

Data as a table

Voting neighbours

Members who voted the same way most often in the roll calls they both took part in, within and outside the member’s group (group at the date of each vote), over all roll calls of the term.

At least 200 shared roll calls over at least six months in office together. Within = both sat in the same group on the date of the vote; a member who changed group can appear on both lists. Baseline = the median agreement of all pairs of members of the groups the two sat in on the date of each shared vote (within: the group they shared; outside: the two groups), weighted by the votes they shared in each combination.

Within the same group (on the day of each vote)

Agreement: roll calls where both cast the same position, of the roll calls both voted in while in the same group (“shared”); a count below 50 shared. Baseline: the median agreement of every pair of members of that group.
SelectMemberGroupCountryAgreementBaseline
Sigrid FRIIS RenewDenmark97 % of 225 shared92 %
Anna STÜRGKH RenewAustria97 % of 210 shared92 %
Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY RenewNetherlands97 % of 229 shared92 %
Raquel GARCÍA HERMIDA-VAN DER WALLE RenewNetherlands96 % of 228 shared92 %
Marjan ŠAREC RenewSlovenia96 % of 227 shared92 %
Hristo PETROV RenewBulgaria96 % of 227 shared92 %
Brigitte VAN DEN BERG RenewNetherlands96 % of 226 shared92 %
Dan BARNA RenewRomania96 % of 225 shared92 %
Jana TOOM RenewEstonia96 % of 224 shared92 %
Dainius ŽALIMAS RenewLithuania96 % of 228 shared92 %

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Outside the group

Agreement: roll calls where both cast the same position, of the roll calls both voted in while in different groups (“shared”); a count below 50 shared. Baseline: the median agreement of every pair of members of the groups the two sat in on those votes (groups at the date, weighted by the votes shared in each combination).
SelectMemberGroupCountryAgreementBaseline
Taner KABILOV changed group ECRBulgaria70 % of 1 957 shared44 %
Jérémy DECERLE RenewFrance61 % of 1 457 shared33 %
Eleonora MELETI EPPGreece61 % of 2 503 shared39 %
Gabriella GERZSENYI EPPHungary60 % of 1 507 shared41 %
Victor NEGRESCU S&DRomania60 % of 2 690 shared37 %
Vangelis MEIMARAKIS EPPGreece59 % of 2 822 shared39 %
Tsvetelina PENKOVA S&DBulgaria59 % of 2 623 shared37 %
Dimitris TSIODRAS EPPGreece59 % of 2 839 shared38 %
Emil RADEV EPPBulgaria59 % of 2 433 shared38 %
Dragoş BENEA S&DRomania59 % of 1 985 shared38 %

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Work

Seats in committees, delegations and intergroups, and the dossiers the member leads, shadows or negotiates.

Seats

Body: the committee, delegation or intergroup, with its kind. Role: the member’s role in it. From, To: the dates of the seat (“now” while it lasts).
BodyRoleFromTo
Committee on Employment and Social AffairsEMPL CommitteeMember14 Sept 2026now
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home AffairsLIBE CommitteeSubstitute2 Sept 2026now
Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the MediterraneanDMED Parliamentary assemblySubstitute15 Jul 2026now
Committee on DevelopmentDEVE CommitteeSubstitute19 Jul 202422 Dec 2024
Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE CommitteeMember23 Jan 20257 Jul 2026
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home AffairsLIBE CommitteeMember19 Jul 202422 Dec 2024
Subcommittee on Human RightsDROI SubcommitteeSubstitute19 Jul 202422 Dec 2024
Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of ChinaD-CN DelegationMember19 Sept 202422 Dec 2024
Delegation for relations with IsraelD-IL DelegationSubstitute19 Sept 202422 Dec 2024
Delegation for relations with the Arab PeninsulaDARP DelegationMember31 Mar 20257 Jul 2026

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Dossiers

Dossier: the procedure the declaration names (“No dossier named” for a delegation without one). Role: rapporteur, shadow rapporteur, negotiator or delegation. Committee: the committee that appointed them. Date: of the declaration.
DossierRoleCommitteeDate
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings, and on enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimes and amending Regulation (EU) 2016/794 -2023/0438(COD).Shadow rapporteurLIBE18 Sept 2024

Topics they work on (model-assigned)

Counts: dossiers they spoke on, led or amended, and their questions and motions.

In the chamber

Speeches and statements in plenary debates, newest first; the verbatim report is on Parliament’s site.

21 contributions recorded; 26 minutes of speaking time.

Show all 21 recent contributions

Questions and motions, 2

Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.

Date: tabled. Title: the question or motion, with its id. Kind: written question or motion for a resolution, with the number of co-authors. Answer: the date of the answer to a question.
DateTitleKindAnswer
13 Jul 2026Alleged unlawful disclosure and misuse of PNR data in Bulgaria E-10-2026-002896Written questionwith 1 co-authorNot yet answered
3 Mar 2026Three years since the railway accident in Tempi, Greece O-10-2026-000010Oral questionwith 35 co-authorsNot yet answered

Amendments tabled in committee, 3

Committee amendment documents that carry amendments by the member, with how many are theirs.

Connections

Dossiers they lead or shadow, committees, party, delegation and other related pages.

Political groups this term

National delegation

  • Delegation Bulgaria National delegation

Sources & citation

Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.

Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Data version
data version 7669c786bb14 (1 Oct 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1 · methods
Retrieved
1 October 2026

Cite as

EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Elena YONCHEVA”. Member record. memberId 197842. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197842?page=30&period=2025&vscope=all (retrieved 1 October 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197842. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/197842?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version 7669c786bb14 (1 Oct 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1.
BibTeX
@misc{epw-member-197842,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Elena YONCHEVA}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197842?page=30&period=2025&vscope=all}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197842?page=30&period=2025&vscope=all},
  urldate = {2026-10-01},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Member record. memberId 197842. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197842. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version 7669c786bb14 (1 Oct 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1}
}